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9dashline

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Little Jack thinks he is a big guy.
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Fuck this dude, him and Elon Musk are both CIA agents... the right hand pretending not to know what the left hand is doing. And why is this fool butting in on China's Covid policies anyway? Does he not know his own agencies history or even of the non-bio-viruses like Stuxnet etc?

This needs an Assad meme, End who you say? I bet CCP will be around a lot longer than Twitter or USA
 
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Win for India however it seems counterproductive as it will highlight India's aggressiveness towards Sri Lanka and its people
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Sri Lanka said on Monday it had asked China to defer the planned visit of a Chinese ship to the island country after initially approving its arrival this week, yielding to diplomatic pressure from neighbour India to keep the military vessel out.
 

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No air conditioning, no heating.
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This is called integration for greater good. I dont think these Europeans know Germanic system let alone its impact on climate.
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Germany and Norway are now electricity neighbors​

After Sweden, Norway is now also directly connected to Germany via an undersea cable. Nordlink is the name of the line. The new electricity highway is considered an important component of the energy transition.
 

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China to help Cuba after fuel tank explosion

Crews making progress against fire at main oil storage facility

By Global Times – Agencies Published: Aug 08, 2022 11:04 PM


Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, sent a message of condolence on Monday to Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel over explosions at a fuel storage facility in Cuba.

In his message to Diaz-Canel, also first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba Central Committee, Xi said he was shocked to learn about the fuel farm explosions in Matanzas province in Cuba, which caused serious casualties and property losses.

Xi noted that on behalf of the Chinese government and people and in his own name, he expressed deep condolences for those killed in the explosions and sincere sympathy to the bereaved families and the injured, adding that China is ready to provide assistance to Cuba.

A lightning strike on Friday ignited one of eight storage tanks at the Matanzas super tanker port 60 miles east of Havana. A second tank caught fire on Saturday, catching firefighters and others at the scene by surprise and has left more than 100 people injured. Sixteen people were missing.

On Monday, China's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin told a regular media briefing that "China and Cuba are good friends, good comrades and good brothers. China expresses deep condolences to the victims of the accident and condolences to the bereaved families and the injured. The Red Cross Society of China has decided to provide emergency humanitarian assistance to the Cuban Red Cross Society. China is willing to continue to provide assistance to Cuba."

Cuba appeared to make progress on Sunday, bringing under control a fire at its main oil storage facility, drawing on help from Mexico and Venezuela to fight the raging flames.

Susely Morfa Gonzalez, head of the Communist Party of Cuba in Matanzas, told local reporters "there are no flames at this time, only white smoke" coming from the first tank hit by lightning.

She said a second tank was still burning, sending up a huge column of black smoke, while a third, which on Saturday night officials feared would explode "is being cooled with water at intervals, in order to maintain an adequate temperature that prevents combustion."

A secondary fire feeding off oil leaking from the area was also extinguished. No oil had contaminated the Matanzas Bay, officials said.

The second explosion on Saturday injured more than 100 people, many first responders, and 24 remain hospitalized, five of them in critical condition.

"We are facing a fire of such magnitude that it is very difficult to control in Cuba, where there are not all the means that are required," Diaz-Canel said.

On Sunday, 82 Mexican and 35 Venezuelan personnel experienced in combating fuel blazes joined the effort, bringing four planeloads of fire-fighting chemicals.

"The help is important, I would say that it is vital and it is going to be decisive," Diaz-Canel said. Cuba had been using water and helicopters to battle the flames.
 

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The second front has opened in the battle for Ukraine—an energy war in Europe. There’s no mystery about
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’s strategy. He laid it out at an economic conference in St. Petersburg in June: high energy prices, which bring hardship as they radiate through the European economy, which will create social turmoil, which will mean that people vote their pained pocketbooks. This in turn will bring to power populist parties that will, to use his own language, change “the elites” in Europe.

The ultimate aim is to bring governments to power in Europe that aren’t committed to supporting Ukraine and thus fracture the Western coalition. The strategy is already at work.
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Today, Russia, invoking technical reasons, has cut the Nord Stream flow to
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of normal levels, sending prices up further. Altogether as of this writing Russia has reduced its pipeline shipments to Europe by more than 70%. The result is natural gas prices seven or eight times as high as normal for European customers, or the equivalent of $380-a-barrel oil.
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Europe’s winter natural-gas storage is about 67% filled. It is the further fill that the Kremlin seeks to disrupt. This energy war will be affected by something distinct from politics. As was the case with Napoleon’s advance into Russia in 1812 and Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union in World War II, the outcome will hinge on the severity of the weather. That is something neither Mr. Putin nor European leaders can control. But one thing on which they can all agree: Winter is coming.

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